“We can decide that the presence of cancer-causing substances in our air, water, and food is too expensive. A 2009 study, for example, has found that coal miners in Appalachia costs the region five times more in premature deaths, including from cancer, than it provides to the region in jobs, taxes, and economic benefits. In California, the production and use of hazardous chemicals cost the state $2.6 billion in 2004 alone in lost wages and health-care expenses to treat workers and children with pollution-linked diseases.” ChildrenStatesUseCareJobsFoundLostWaterStudyFiveAirEconomicExampleCostTaxesDiseaseBenefitsTreatsEnvironmentalWorkersIncludingCancerProductionsBillionsHealth CareSubstanceCaliforniaExpensiveRegionsExpensesChemicalsPollutionWagesCoalLinkedPrematureMinersAppalachiaCoal MinersPremature Death Author:Sandra Steingraber
“If coal wants a place in a carbon-constrained future, they have to look at technology like this. And we think that our rule can help stimulate technology, growth, and innovation, bring those costs down, and allow coal a more stable opportunity to continue to be invested in.” IfsThinkingWantLooksHelpingOpportunityGrowthTechnologyCostInnovationDown AndStableCarbonCoal Author:Gina McCarthy
“Subsidies for the oil, gas and coal industries are projected to cost taxpayers more than $135 billion in the coming decade. At a time when scientists tell us we need to reduce carbon pollution to prevent catastrophic climate change, it is absurd to provide massive subsidies that pad fossil-fuel companies' already enormous profits.” NeedsCompanyIndustryCostScientistClimateClimate ChangeProfitOilDecadesBillionsEnormousAbsurdFuelGasMassivePollutionCarbonCoalFossilsTaxpayersFossil FuelPadsSubsidies Author:Bernie Sanders
“A new era has dawned in Ontario; one where the air will be cleaner and the multiple costs of coal-fired generation have become a distant memory. Atikokan's successful conversion to biomass will put Ontario on the world map as a leader in using this sustainable fuel source for electricity production.” WorldMemoriesLeaderSuccessfulGenerationsAirSourceCostProductionsConversionErasFuelMapsMultipleElectricityCoalCleanersNew EraOntarioBiomass Author:Bob Chiarelli
“Imposing excessive new regulations, or closing coal-fired power plants, would produce few health or environmental benefits. But it would exact huge costs on society - and bring factories, offices and economies to a screeching halt in states that are 80-98% dependent on coal: Indiana, Kentucky, Missouri, North Dakota, Ohio, Utah, West Virginia and Wyoming.” StatesEconomyProduceHugeCostOfficeBenefitsPlantWestEnvironmentalDependentFactoriesRegulationCoalClosingVirginiaHaltOhioImposingIndianaKentuckyUtahDakotaMissouriPower PlantsWest VirginiaWyomingNorth Dakota Author:Paul Driessen
“If you really could take the CO2, when you burn hydrocarbons - coal, for example - if you could really capture the carbon and sequester it - they call it CCS - if the extra capital cost, energy cost, and storage costs over time didn't make it super expensive, then that's another path that you could go down.” IfsEnergyPathExampleCostExtrasExpensiveCaptureCarbonCoalStorageCo2Hydrocarbons Author:Bill Gates
“When the President is making it harder to mine coal, to use coal, to take advantage of our gas resources, to make it harder to get our oil resources - all those things combine to make our cost of energy higher than it needs to be, and it drives away enterprises from this country. It sends it to places that have lower-cost energy.” NeedsCountryUseEnergyPresidentMinesHigherCostResourcesAdvantageHarderOilEnterpriseGasCoal Author:Mitt Romney
“The extraction of oil, coal and minerals brought, and still brings, a cost to the environment.” StillsEnvironmentCostOilCoalMineralsExtraction Author:Bono